I am an interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator.
The heart of my practice and the majority of work I generate is intended to be performed and shared with a live audience. These works are influenced by and borrow from contemporary performance art, experimental theatre, music, dance, and social practices.
Recently, I have been exploring the mediums of photography, video, and writing– how each intersect in my live performances and how each might bring, as singular mediums, new works and discoveries.
Drawn to and inspired by the metaphysical and existential, my artistic work interrogates the big questions of human (co)existence through an examination of the very personal, nuanced lives we live both alone and together.
Collaboration is vital to my practice and I often work with others to devise processes that are specifically tailored to each project and intentionally developed over varying lengths of time. My frequent collaborators include fellow performance artists and theatre makers, but also musicians, composers, choreographers, dancers, visual artists, and writers as well as dear friends, my partner, and former students; occasionally my collaborators are people I am meeting for the very first time as strangers, and sometimes they are my parents. Together, we build a creative process with love, trust and play. Through reciprocal exchanges and refinements we devise the work.
My work has been performed and exhibited at The Arts & Design Incubator (Penn State), Bellmont Hall (UT Austin), The Copernicus Center (Chicago), Defibrillator Gallery (Chicago), The Haggerty Museum (Milwaukee), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Links Hall (Chicago), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Roman Susan Gallery (Chicago), and Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago). With Amanda Dunne Acevedo I create and produce work under the name Genesis.
I have developed curriculum and facilitated workshops around the United States, Europe and Australia. My teaching is framed by an inquiry-based pedagogy where artistic practice serves as a lens for critical questioning and thinking about our world. I approach classrooms as rehearsal rooms where learning happens in a carefully-created climate of constructive compassion, experimentation, risk, and attention.
I hold a MFA in Studio Art Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2014); where I served as Performance Producer (2015 - 2018) and Assistant Director of Exhibitions/Staff Advisor to SITE Galleries (2018 - 2022). I am currently a Lecturer in the Contemporary Practices Department at SAIC.
